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We have extensive experience of designing workplaces from company headquartersto large commercial offices. Informed by our research we have designed some of the most sustainable workplaces in the UK and our proven sustainable approach has been recognisedas adding value to contemporary workplaces.

2019 Yorkshire Property Awards, Gamechanger Award, CEG Southbank Leeds2015 RIBA National Award, Middleport Pottery2015 RIBA Regional Award, RIBA SW Project of the year Award and RIBA South West Project Architect of the Year2015 RIBA Regional Conservation Project of the Year Award and Building of the Year, Middleport Pottery2015 Europa Nostra Award for Conservation, Middleport Pottery2015 Civic Trust Award, Middleport Pottery2014 British Expertise International Award, Franshion Green Building Exhibition Centre2012 BCI Award, The Prime Minister’s Better Public Building Award, MMU Business School and Student Hub2012 RIBA National Award, MMU Business School and Student Hub2011 RIBA Award, Woodland Trust National Headquarters2011 BCO Award, Corporate Workplace, Woodland Trust National Headquarters

AWARDS

2009 RIBA Award, Runnymede Civic Offices2009 Civic Trust Award, Runnymede Civic Offices2007 Civic Trust Award, Special Award for Sustainability, National Trust HQ2007 Building Sustainability Award, Sustainable Building of the Year, National Trust Headquarters2006 RIBA Award and Award for Sustainability, National Trust Headquarters2006 BCI Award, Building Award, National Trust Headquarters2006 BCO Award, Innovation Award, National Trust Headquarters2002 RIBA Award, Persistence Works, Sheffield

The Beam, Sunderland

A new speculative workspace, ‘The Beam’ is the first phase centrepiece of the ambitious regeneration of the former Vaux Brewery site in Sunderland City Centre.

This is the first building to be completed on the landmark site and part of the 15 year regeneration project which, once complete, will extend the city centre, create thousands of jobs and have a major social and economic impact on the region. It is a catalyst for Sunderland’s future.

The building provides five floors of Grade A office accommodation with views across the River Wear towards the Wearmouth Bridge and ground floor retail, café and restaurant offers.

Designed with five themes in mind: a healthy office, a sustainable workplace, an appealing workplace, a lean building, and a contextual response, The Beam sets a high standard of workplace accommodation for the site.

Client: Sunderland City Council/Carillion/Igloo Location: Sunderland

This sustainable workplace promotes a healthy work-life balance. Office spaces wrap around a protected courtyard atrium which is vibrantly planted and open to the sky. This space lends itself to staff meetings, lunch breaks and events and brings daylight and fresh air deep into the building’s core.

Opening windows and generous floor to ceiling heights help natural ventilation and allow for natural lighting throughout. Exposed concrete ceilings provide thermal mass keeping the building warm in winter and cool in summer.

Floorplates are designed to

be sub-divisible into multiple

demises... Future proofing is

around not only flexibility and

adaptability, but also around

climate change adaption.

The Beam, Sunderland

1 & 2 Circle Square, Manchester

The collaborative and connected office spaces of 1 and 2 Circle Square are at the heart of the Oxford Road Corridor. The buildings act as the gateway to Circle Square and are surrounded by world leading centres of knowledge, science and technology, business, art, music and dance.

Designed to provide fully flexible and adaptable office space with ground and first floor retail, the buildings will face onto Oxford Road and create new active frontage and a clearly defined pedestrian route into the Circle Square development. The elevation design has been developed to emulate the classical proportions of the 19th-century Commercial buildings of the Whitworth Street Conservation Area.

Client: BruntwoodLocation: Manchester

Standing at 14 storeys and

17 storeys tall respectively,

the two buildings will

provide a combined total of

400,000 sq ft of high quality,

BREEAM ‘excellent’ rated

office space for progressive

businesses across a range

of sectors, including digital

and technology.

1 & 2 Circle Square, Manchester

No. 3 Circle Square, Manchester

A new 15 storey, 224,500 sq ft office development at Circle Square will provide another major boost to Manchester’s Oxford Road Corridor innovation district.

No.3 Circle Square will offer 13 full floors of office space, with floorplates of approximately 16,400 sq ft. The open-plan ground floor space combines a reception area with retail and leisure amenities, as well as a cycle hub and showers. There will also be a new roof terrace and lounge at the top of the building, providing companies at Circle Square with a private garden space from which to work that complements the new state-of-the-art conference and events facilities provided at No.1 Circle Square.

The glazed ceramic façade will pay homage to and complement the Victorian and Edwardian architecture prevalent in the neighbouring area.

Client: Bruntwood SciTechLocation: Manchester

Plans for the development are a response meeting soaring levels of demand for workspace from science and tech businesses looking to invest in Manchester - one of Europe’s top 20 digital cities.

No. 3 Circle Square, Manchester

Temple Leeds

Temple Leeds

The new proposals for Temple Leeds reflect the spirit and ambition that brought progress and prosperity to Leeds through the pioneering entrepreneurs who shaped the city in the 18th and 19th Centuries.

This 3.52 ha development respects its historic context and industrial past whilst enabling a new sustainable community to grow. The mixed-use scheme will deliver 130,000m² of accommodation, set within a backdrop of new public spaces and landscaping.

The masterplan has been developed around a series of key linkages that thread the neighbourhood together. Main routes to Leeds city centre and the train station are reinforced and connections through and around the site provide a new network of pedestrian and cycle paths that weave the emerging community into the existing city.

Client: CEG Location: Leeds

A series of public open

spaces are set within the

quarter, responding in size

and character to the historic

and emerging context.

The landscaping ties railway infrastructure, water courses and the listed Hol Beck Bridge into new streets and squares to create a place that is both progressively and distinctly South Bank.

Mill style buildings will be punctuated by taller modern ‘chimneys’ that echo the campanile towers of Tower Works. Brick, terracotta and industrial metalwork reference the vernacular architecture to inform the palette of building materials.

Carver Street Sheffield

Client: Sheffield City CouncilLocation: Sheffield

H2 has been designed to be

energy efficient in operation,

emitting around 40% less

carbon than a typical Building

Regulations compliant design.

H2 will be a brand-new building offering approx. 70,000 sqft of Grade A office space, split across seven floors with south facing roof terrace, retail and food and beverage units on the ground floor.

The development for H3 includes a large, industrial-style space, shops, a bar and restaurant, and an upper level leisure space. The existing Bethel Chapel building will also be renovated, with plans to become a live entertainment venue.

The site is also home to Leah’s Yard (H1) – a Grade II* Listed building housing a collection of small former industrial workshops. There is desire to maintain the building’s Sheffield character by providing similar workshops for the city’s next creative generation.

FCBStudios have been appointed as architect for a mixed-use leisure scheme in Sheffield City Centre. The complex, referred to as Block H (a wide-ranging development split into three distinct elements H1, H2 and H3, is part of Heart of the City II, one of Sheffield’s major current economic projects. Backed by Sheffield City Council, with Queensberry as its key delivery partner, it is not just a retail scheme, but a mixed-use, vibrant quarter right at the heart of the city and synonymous with everything the city is trying to achieve.

Located at the very core of the city centre, it will bind together the old and the new, keeping the existing street patterns and quirky historic buildings but adding in striking new architecture and unique outdoor spaces. Rooted in the city’s unique character, Heart of the City II will provide a new home for Sheffield’s cultural, commercial and creative trailblazers.

Carver Street Sheffield

Old Paradise Street

Client: Bywater Gamma UK Property I (No.2) LtdLocation: London

‘Paradise’ aspires to

transform a neglected and

disused site into a forward-

looking sustainable office

building which might become

a test case for promoting

awareness around the carbon

impact of buildings.

Old Paradise Street

The office development on the site of the Costa Roastery in Lambeth will have a cross laminated timber structure and an extruded terracotta façade. The proposals are on target for almost 60 years of negative carbon footprint.

In addition to sustainability and low carbon impact, the project will support the health and well-being of future occupiers from within the building.

The Old Paradise Street project will create a new workplace building on the site of the former Costa Coffee Roastery in Lambeth. The site is in a prominent location on the railway line into Waterloo Station opposite Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery and adjacent to gardens that form part of the Lambeth Palace Conservation Area. Our client Bywater Property are keen to deliver an innovative and highly sustainable building in this diverse and fast developing area of central London.

Paradise is five floors of open plan office accommodation for single or multiple tenants. The objective is to achieve a gold standard WELL rating, focussing on natural light, air quality, access to nature and use of natural materials. It will positively impact the local community in the immediate surrounding area by championing a careful consideration and appreciation of the local heritage and rich history of the area. The relationship with Old Paradise Gardens gives an opportunity to create the kind of access to green spaces that is typically hard to achieve in central London.

Mountbatten House

Designed by Arup Associates between 1974 -1976 for the paper manufacturer and merchants, Wiggins Teape to become their new UK headquarters. The six-storey office building provides 154,200 sq ft of space across an elaborate chest of drawer-like structure topped with landscaped gardens.

To meet the aspirations of contemporary users demanding flexible, sustainable, and healthy workplaces, the proposals improve entrance access, capture the excitement of internal double-height spaces for contemporary workplace use and update all the office space overlooking the five levels of re-vitalised roof gardens.

The network of rooftop gardens encourages biodiversity and the enhanced wellbeing of occupants through the handling of space, light, communal working, environmental control and access to the 40,000 sq ft of gardens and their expansive views south and west across Hampshire.

Images © HayesDavidson

Client: Mountbatten House LtdLocation: Basingstoke

Known as the Hanging

Gardens of Basingstoke,

the Grade II listed

Mountbatten House is to be

refurbished as an exemplar

‘environmental office’ and

restored to its former glory.

Mountbatten House

Winetavern Development

Client: Bywater Capital (Winetavern) LimitedLocation: Belfast

The Winetavern development

proposes an ‘eco–system

of workplaces’ from large

grade A office to informal co

working spaces.

Mixed-use regeneration and development of vacant surface level car park and refurbishment of existing listed ‘Butchers’ building, with erection of new mixed use buildings (heights varying between 3 - 9 storeys).

The development will accommodate ‘Grade A’ and SME offices above lower floors which will provide a mix of retail and workspaces that support local economies and business, linked together with new lanes and yards appropriate to the grain of the city.

The proposal includes provision of new pedestrian accesses from Gresham and Winetavern Street; associated public realm, landscaping, associated plant, and all site and access works.

Winetavern Development

Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings

This project deals with the repair and adaptive re-use of an outstanding group of historic buildings in Shrewsbury, which includes the oldest surviving cast iron framed buildings in the world.

FCBStudios have been acting as Strategic Advisors and Architects to client Historic England (formerly English Heritage) since 2003.

The aim of the project is to work with the local community and other key stakeholders to develop a vibrant centre for living, working, social enterprise and leisure, all as part of a wider mixed-use development for the site and economic regeneration of this area of the town.

Planning and Listed Building Consents for the Masterplan and for a core range of the historic buildings, listed at Grade I and II* were successfully achieved in 2016. The Heritage Lottery Fund have awarded £11.7m of funding, allowing the main historic buildings on site to be repaired and brought back into use.

Client: Historic England Location: Shrewsbury

Proposals by FCBStudios are

designed to provide an exemplar

of how modern technology

and engineering innovation

can be applied to these

prototype heritage buildings,

complementing and preserving

their special character.

Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings

Clifton Down Road Bristol

Clifton Down Road Bristol

A new commercial building for a development in Bristol on the derelict site at 2-16 Clifton Down Road adjacent to Clifton Arcade. The current building, which has been out of use for six years, will be replaced by a new commercial building providing a food store, cafés, shops, a restaurant and offices that will add positively to the on-going regeneration of the local area.

New extensive landscaping to the surrounding streets, including resurfacing, planting and dedicated outdoor seating areas continue the well-established al-fresco café dining of Boyce’s Avenue and will bring new life to Clifton Down Road itself. The proposed scheme is a result of listening to the people of Clifton and understanding how good contemporary design can enhance historically significant parts of cities.

Client: THAT Clifton Company LtdLocation: Clifton

Due to the historic context, the

scheme has been designed to

fit respectfully within its urban

setting drawing references

from both the history of the

site, but also from the existing,

visible context which includes

Georgian Terrace Houses and

the Victorian Clifton Arcade

enabling the scheme to feel

‘of the place.’

Imperial Studios, London

Client: Stonehaven LimitedLocation: London

The new building will help to

create a new active street

frontage and enhanced

public realm with units able

to open directly onto the

pavement as well providing

a new central foyer with café

and shared reception.

Imperial Studios is a new workplace building proposed for a sensitive site in Fulham West London. The scheme will provide around 3,700 m2 of office space over three floors with large flexible floorplates that can accommodate a wide range of tenants. The new building will replace an existing workplace block that was originally a vehicle servicing depot for the nearby Fulham Gas Works and has been repurposed and converted over a number of years but currently offers poor quality space for its existing occupiers.

The site is within the tiny conservation area of Imperial Square which consists of a series of Victorian terraces around an open-sided public space. To the south and west the major Fulham Gasworks site is being redeveloped by Berkeley Group with a number of tall residential towers. The Imperial Studios backs onto residential properties on Imperial Square while also creating a 100M long frontage onto Imperial Road.

Imperial Studios, London

The mass of the building responds to its context by stepping away from the neighbouring houses and cantilevering out along the main road to create a dramatic new frontage. The roof and flank walls of the upper levels will be planted while the street elevation is broken into a series of regular bays that break down the mass of the building and respond to the scale of the listed terraces.

Woodland Trust Headquarters

An unusual office building clad in larch, designed to give the feeling of being among trees, with an enclosed woodland glade at its heart.

The Woodland Trust’s new offices are on a greenfield site and we were keen to create a ‘woodland experience’ from the moment people arrive. Staff and visitors are welcomed through a central garden space planted with birch trees, which encourages a range of interactions by providing both an informal meeting area and a place for eating lunch outdoors.

The building ascends in a spiral and thus makes a dynamic transition from landscape to building. External timber cladding and decorative wood panelling internally express the core mission of the Trust and reflect the surrounding landscape. Internal spaces are grouped around a top-lit atrium, which is both reception area and staff breakout space, large enough to allow the 200 staff to come together for special occasions.

The client was keen for the building to be as energy efficient as possible, sitting lightly in its surrounding landscape.

Three storey vertical windows on the north and south elevations provide natural light and ventilation, and the timber structure has been modified in a highly innovative way to increase thermal mass.

A series of ‘concrete radiators’ – concrete boxes fixed to the timber panelling inside - provide the necessary extra mass for passive heating and cooling. We calculate that the CLT structure and timber cladding saved nearly 650 tCO2e in comparison to a concrete frame, making the building carbon negative and offsetting five years of operational carbon. The building achieved a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating.

Client: The Woodland TrustLocation: Grantham

Woodland Trust Headquarters

National Trust Headquarters, Swindon

Heelis is the award-winning headquarters for the UK’s largest charity, the National Trust. Sustainability is at the heart of the National Trust’s mission and FCBStudios was briefed to develop the most sustainable building possible within the available budget.

Located in Swindon, the new Central Office we have created has satisfied that brief and gained two of the most prestigious sustainability awards in the UK from RIBA and the Civic Trust in the process. The project demonstrates that it is possible to achieve significant improvements in the performance of typical commercial buildings built to similar budgets.

Client: The National Trust / Kier VenturesLocation: Swindon

The new office has

achieved an ‘excellent’

BREEAM rating and is

expected to generate less

than 20Kg of CO2/m2

each year.

The environmental design and minimised energy usage has put in place the possibility of approaching carbon neutrality.

It offers 76,500 square feet of office space, meeting rooms and workshops for 470 staff, plus a shop and café, and brings together a workforce previously dispersed over four locations.

National Trust Headquarters, Swindon

Spreehalle, Berlin

Spreehalle, Berlin

Spreehalle provides space and volume to be fitted out by the end users - ‘raw space’. It is evocative of its industrial ancestry and provides space for artists, creative users and small businesses to live and work within ateliers realising the ambitions of the client, Bryan Adams.

The mixed-use regeneration project is in the southeastern Berlin district of Treptow-Köpenick on the river Spree providing live/work ateliers together with a café, bookshop and other commercial activities at ground floor level.

Working with an existing industrial building, we inserted an open courtyard into the centre of the two linear main halls. By removing the roof coverings but retaining the steel structures we have created an outdoor space; a sanctuary away from the more public exterior and a communal space for enjoyment.

Client: Bryan AdamsLocation: Berlin, Germany

The users are able to erect whatever structures or mezzanines they choose within the shell dispelling the idea of a rigid, pre-ordained space.

A new two storey addition was proposed at the first-floor roof level of the previous office building to the west within the designated height permitted for the area. The linear building was divided into eight ateliers dictated by existing window positions and a new two storey structure replaced the single storey former toilet block to the east.

The two storey addition is in part a double height volume with linear north light, an industrial mezzanine and steel sliding doors which open onto a balcony overlooking the river. The existing two floors are left as found.

Middleport Pottery, Stoke-on-Trent

Middleport Pottery is the home of ‘Burleigh Ware’ ceramics, and is one of the last working Victorian Potteries in the United Kingdom.

The dilapidated Grade II* factory buildings in Burslem were saved by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.

The site was purchased by The Prince’s Regeneration Trust in 2010 and working alongside FCBStudios a brief was developed to repair the factory, save the jeopardised jobs of existing employees, create additional jobs and kick start the regeneration of the surrounding town.

The quiet and restrained refurbishment of the site has been awarded a Europa Nostra Prize for European Cultural Heritage Conservation.

Client: The Prince’s Regeneration Trust Location: Stoke-on-Trent

The refurbishment has made a number of major sustainability improvements.

The conservation brief required extensive refurbishment of leaking roofs and windows, and improving the energy efficiency of the building envelope through upgraded insulation, enhanced airtightness performance and the installation of new highly efficient servicing, including lifts. External lighting has been designed to a low lux level to minimise light pollution whilst maintaining a flight path for bats.

The building’s time-worn industrial character was very fragile and in danger of being lost to over-sanitised heritage commodification. Even though the buildings were at risk of collapse, their conservation could jeopardise everything about the site that the team hoped to save. The ‘light touch’ philosophy sought only to intervene where essential.

Middleport Pottery, Stoke-on-Trent

FranshionGreen Building Exhibition Centre, China

FCBStudios were commissioned by Franshion, a Beijing headquartered developer to provide 12,000sqm of exhibition and office space with an agenda to develop a cutting edge low carbon building for Meixi Lake Eco-City.

The exemplar building provides a show case hub for innovation and knowledge transfer for low carbon construction, but will also communicate the strategies and sustainability initiatives of the Meixi Lake Eco-City.

The city itself comprises nearly 15 million square metres of development, an estimated £6bn investment and will eventually have a population of more than 300,000.

Client: Franshion Properties (China) LtdLocation: Changsha, China

FranshionGreen Building Exhibition Centre, China

The focus of the design

and brief was to physically

showcase innovative

building technologies in

the public exhibition areas

of the building as well as

being designed to achieve

the highest standards in

BREEAM and China’s 3 Star

green building assessment.

Wellington Place Leeds

Wellington Place Leeds

Wellington Place occupies the site of the former Leeds Central railway station. It has been planned around a sequence of two new public spaces that will link the city centre to the riverside. These spaces will be formed around the historic relics of a railway lifting tower and a section of viaduct.

The development will comprise over 300,000 square metres of sustainable community development incorporating commercial, retail and residential accommodation.

As a new addition to the city’s culturally vibrant West End, Wellington Place will become a destination in its own right within the wider context of West Yorkshire’s rich heritage of internationally renowned artists and sculptors.

Client: MEPC Ltd Location: Leeds

The concept of Wellington Place evolved out of a desire to create a coherent and distinguishable urban quarter.

The design of significant urban spaces, the emphasis of strong pedestrian connections, the massing of a dramatic plan and roof form, and the inclusion of public art aims to create something new in contemporary UK urban design.

Farmiloe Building London

The Grade II listed Farmiloe Building was owned by the Farmiloe family, who retained ownership of the building and site for approximately 150 years.

Sitting within the Charterhouse Square Conservation Area, and overlooking Charterhouse itself, our proposals for the project intended to enhance the original 1868 building and provide a sensitive and exciting adaptation for office use.

On the ground floor of the development a modern retail space was to be incorporated to provide street frontage activity with new affordable workspaces to the rear. At upper levels the building was carefully engineered to enable generous floor to ceiling heights for all offices, together with outlooks over private external spaces and roof garden terraces.

Client: St John Property Developments LtdLocation: London

Specialist knowledge and

best practice conservation

techniques were employed

to ensure respect for the

historic building’s fabric,

along with expertise in

improving energy efficiency.

The project aim was to ensure that the listed building was on a sustainable footing for the next period of its life whilst making a dynamic and positive contribution to the conservation area within which it’s located.

Farmiloe Building London

Persistence Works, Sheffield

Client: Yorkshire Artspace Society LtdLocation: Sheffield

The building demonstrates innovation in our use of materials.

It explores the use of concrete while the design and method of construction were carefully researched to achieve the highest quality affordable finish. The cast in situ concrete is contrasted with lightweight, frameless glass elements. The building incorporates a number of artists’ works, with the primary collaboration a “floating wall” to the main frontage.

Persistence Works, Sheffield

Located in Sheffield, Persistence Works was the UK’s first purpose-built fine art and crafts studio complex and provides a permanent base for over 80 artists. The client was Yorkshire ArtSpace, a charitable organisation supporting artists and craftspeople by providing studio space at affordable rents, while offering a wide range of visual arts events and activities to the community.

The site is a prominent one, situated at the inter-section between the cultural and industrial developments within Sheffield’s old cutlery industries’ quarter. The function of the building is a synthesis of the two aspects of the cultural and industrial sectors; a synthesis which is also reflected in its form.

Square Kilometre Array Project Office, Jodrell Bank

Client: Eurigena Consortium / TU DublinLocation: Dublin

In 2009 the University of Manchester’s Centre for Astrophysics appointed us to masterplan the famous Jodrell Bank Observatory site and then design a series of new buildings within the park of the Grade 1 listed Lovell Radio Telescope.

The first project brief was to create an inspirational visitor centre to communicate the importance and relevance of the scientific research undertaken at Jodrell to a wider audience.

Following the completion of the visitor centre, the University of Manchester asked the team to help expand the scientific research facilities on site and design the global HQ for the world’s next-generation radio telescope known as the Square Kilometre Array.

The building is to

accommodate work

spaces for 62 staff

member plus a number

of visitors and a series of

support spaces including

meeting rooms and

service, storage and

support spaces.

Square Kilometre Array Project Office, Jodrell Bank

Neal’s Yard Headquarters

The new Neal’s Yard headquarters building is set within a landscape of herb and flower cultivation on a 5 hectare greenfield site, located on the fringes Gillingham in Dorset. The key design aims were to create a humane working environment with a social heart, to provide visible evidence of the Neal’s Yard Remedies environmental agenda and to demonstrate a prototype timber industrial building appropriate to its rural setting. We provided full architectural services up to tender; the project team was then novated to a Design and Build contractor.

CO2 emissions were reduced through high levels of insulation, natural ventilation and controlled daylight. Conservation of natural resources was also a priority, including investigations of on-site energy generation, water conservation, the collection of rainwater and the use of low embodied energy materials. The project was a successful test bed for the use of unfired clay bricks to add internal thermal mass; the building has a leakage rate of less than one fifth of the statutory requirements.

Client: Neal’s Yard Remedies Location: Gillingham

CO2 emissions were reduced through high levels of insulation, natural ventilation and controlled daylight.

Conservation of natural resources was also a priority, including investigations of on-site energy generation, water conservation, the collection of rainwater and the use of low embodied energy materials. The project was a successful test bed for the use of unfired clay bricks to add internal thermal mass; the building has a leakage rate of less than one fifth of the statutory requirements.

Neal’s Yard Headquarters

RARE Headquarters

The new corporate headquarters for Rare, a 200-strong software engineering company based in Leicestershire, required low energy solutions to substantial security and heat output challenges; while the brief required the building to be sensitively integrated into the landscape setting: “noticed but not noticeable”.

Shared facilities, such as the refectory, administration offices, hardware support and recording studio, are housed in a central building which is connected by glazed links to a series of “barns” which house the majority of team workstations.

A masterplan was produced for the whole campus that included creating a new entrance road and extensive landscaping based on an ecological assessment of the 60 acre site. Careful negotiations took place with the planning authorities and the Royal Fine Art Commission, while public meetings were held to hear local views of the proposals.

Client: Rare LtdLocation: Leicestershire

The building was designed

to use 25% less energy and

less than half the water

than a conventional building

of the same size.

This low energy solution responded to the onerous demands made on the internal environment by significant equipment heat loads (some workstation computers can generate up to 2KW of heat).

Energy-saving features include natural ventilation and the use of borehole water for cooling. A reed bed system is used as the final “polisher” to the new sewage treatment plant.

RARE Headquarters

Runnymede Civic Office

This is the first in a new generation of joint civic offices within the UK, which meet Government aspirations to combine a range of services under one roof, in this instance the local council, police and a public library.

The 65,000 square feet of area provides accommodation for some 250 employees at Runnymede Borough Council along with accommodation for Surrey Police, Safer Runnymede and a new public library for Surrey County Council. This is a unique public building that communicates the changing culture of local democracy as well as communal identity and civic pride, both for the citizens of Addlestone and the staff of RBC. This is the first in a new generation of joint civic offices within the UK, which meet Government aspirations to combine a range of services under one roof, in this instance the local council, police and a public library.

Client: Runnymede Borough CouncilLocation: Addlestone

The new building is a highly sustainable workplace where we sought to find the balance between a strong civic presence and a welcoming user-friendly environment.

The Civic Offices are a further catalyst for the regeneration of Addlestone town centre which began with the completion of the FCBStudios designed Addlestone Community Centre, completed in August 2005.

Runnymede Civic Office

The Berrill Building

Client: Open UniversityLocation: Milton Keynes

The Berrill Building forms a new entrance to the Open University campus, providing visitor, reception and conference facilities including an exhibition space, café and 250-seat lecture theatre, constructed within an existing BBC television studio. Its main function, however, is to provide office space for 450 people in three departments: academic administration, the Institute of Educational Technology and the Knowledge Media Institute.

The 7,500sqm building provides low energy accommodation by incorporating simple passive systems including optimising natural daylight, ventilation and shading systems which can be operated by individual users. The building, orientated on a north/south axis, combines different approaches to reducing solar gain on each elevation.

The 7,500sqm building provides low energy accommodation by incorporating simple passive systems.

The Berrill Building

This included optimising natural daylight, ventilation and shading systems which can be operated by individual users. The building, orientated on a north/south axis, combines different approaches to reducing solar gain on each elevation.

New Environmental Office, BRE

Client: Building Research Establishment (BRE)Location: Garston

96% of the material from

demolition of the redundant

workshops on site was

recycled and this was the first

UK use of recycled aggregate

for concrete superstructure.

The specification, devised as part of the Energy Efficient Office of the Future project, set stringent targets for energy consumption and addressed wider environmental concerns such as recycling.

Other recycled materials included brickwork, screeds, made from recycled power station gypsum and wood block floors recycled from County Hall in London.

This is a landmark building at the heart of the BRE campus, providing 1,350 square metres of office space plus seminar facilities combining high architectural standards with innovations in energy efficient environmental design. The project received a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating, achieving the highest score recorded at the time.

We designed the experimental structure to use approx. 30% less energy than current best practice.

New Environmental Office, BRE

Greenpeace Headquarters

Client: Greenpeace UKLocation: Islington

This conversion of a 1930’s former laboratory building provides 2,000 square metres of accommodation for 80 Greenpeace staff in North London.

Materials were carefully selected to minimise their impact on the environment in manufacture, how they are used and their ultimate disposal.

The project maximises use of the substantial window areas in the existing building to provide controlled and natural lighting and ventilation, and uses a combined heat and power plant to provide heat and electricity.

This was a pioneering environmental and ecological refurbishment which incorporates a variety of low energy design features in a fast track programme.

Greenpeace Headquarters